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By Elizabeth DaleyREUTERS • Thursday November 14, 2013 6:04 AM

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Three teenage boys were wounded yesterday and five people have been taken into
custody after shots were fired near a high school in an incident that police said could be related
to a fight that took place at the school a month ago.

The three victims, one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds, were not cooperating with
investigators, police said. Pittsburgh’s EMS chief, Mark Bocian, said their injuries were not
life-threatening.

All three teenagers were shot outside Brashear High School as they walked to a vehicle they’d
all taken to school earlier in the day, school district spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said.

The victims’ wounds didn’t appear to be life-threatening, both Pugh and police spokeswoman Diane
Richard said, though they described the wounds differently.

“This whole incident … may have been related over something that happened a month ago,” Richard
said after speaking with high-school officials.

Richard said a fight at the school on Oct. 18 “quite possibly could be drug-related.”

Police took five people into custody late yesterday afternoon, said Pittsburgh Police Acting
Chief Regina McDonald. None of those in custody has been charged.

Nick Lorusso, 52, a truck driver, said he was in his backyard chopping wood about two blocks
from the school when he heard seven or eight quick gunshots.

“It was quick, like
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, all in a row,” he said.

Brashear High School is the public-school district’s largest high school by enrollment, with
1,416 students, according to the district.